Comment by pqtyw

>perhaps 10 or 12 years

So if party A votes down proposal X and the next election party B that publicly supports it wins they shouldn't be allowed to propose that law?

Logical conclusion would be for the governing party to get some stooge to propose all the policies they oppose, get them far enough to the voting stage and reject them. Now your opponents can't do anything even if you lose the next election...

Of course doesn't really apply to pseudo-democratic institutions like the EU..